Introduction; Installing The Backgrounder; Printing With The Backgrounder - Primera Pictura 310s User Manual

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Print
Backgrounder
for Macintosh
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A. Introduction
B. Installing
the Backgrounder
C. Printing
with the
Backgrounder
The Color Sign Printer printer driver for Macintosh
provides a background print utility called the Print
Backgrounder. This print utility is turned on or off
through the Chooser. When the Backgrounder is
turned on, it allows you to conveniently continue
working in the foreground of your application
while printing in the background. When
Backgrounder is turned off, all print jobs are
processed immediately in the foreground of your
application. The Backgrounder offers many helpful
features which are described further in this section.
The Backgrounder is installed by selecting the
Install Background Print Utility option from
within the printer driverÕs installer program. This
option is NOT selected by default, so if you did not
select the Backgrounder option when installing the
printer driver, it is most likely not installed. To
install the Backgrounder, simply go through the
printer driver installation procedure described in
Section 7-B making sure that the Install
Background Print Utility option is selected. The
Backgrounder installs into the Extensions folder of
your startup drive. Once installed, Backgrounder
will automatically open and close with the start
and finish of each print job. To manually open
Backgrounder, double-click on the Print
Backgrounder icon within the Extensions folder.
With the Backgrounder turned on in the Chooser,
select Print from the File menu to print your image.
A message appears telling you the image is being
spooled to disk for Background/Later processing.
Once the message disappears, background
processing has begun so your application is free to
be used for other work.
The print job is processed automatically by the
Backgrounder. Other documents can be printed
and, in turn, will be processed by Backgrounder.
While Backgrounder is running, you can quit the
current application and start another without
disturbing your print jobs. Backgrounder processes
all print jobs in the order in which they were sent
to the printer.